paladin

I found a few items on my gun while I walking around and noticed that the kits don't have any of these little things on them, I'll go around and take a few pics and measurments so it's easy to build them, also you'll need to put 4 track links on the front deck, 2 together and 2 individual ones, these go below the drivers hatch on the access panels the double one goes first closest to the hatch then the two single go on the others. I think I have pics posted already?
but my better half is nagging so I gotta go, .............ahgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!.......................................................................................................................................................................................

I almost forgot!!
one of our batteries is currently putting an extra road wheel on the driverside of the vehicle
(right on the side where those bolts are). and also For Your Knowledge, sometimes if gun crews want or need extra space for sleeping inside the gun or the cat we will put straps on those bolts and strap all kinds of gear to them. no one likes sleeping in the rain or the snow!!!!!!!!

for the bolts on the sides, there I looked at ours in the trackpark, we've got the upper two

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if this crued lil' typing example helps? OR I could snap off a pic on Moonday during work or something?

it's called degradded when a paladin fires with the spades down, usually due to low hydraulics or going manual like on the previous models of gun.

Another few tips about modeling a Paladin. The kits have the housings on the upper hull behind the engine grilles that were originally used on the M109 series for the floatation devices. These aren't fitted to the 'A6. Also, the bolt pattern on the side of the hull is different than the kit, so find some reference photos to pick which to keep and which to shave. Also, don't muddy or scrape up the trail spades, Paladin usually fires without fully emplacing (as did the older M109's)... of course, there are exceptions to this from time to time! There are also other little differences that I an't remember right off the top of my head, so look over photos as muchas possible. And... enjoy modeling a great artillery piece!

Okay, new at this so if I screw up... a reply to the question about the A2. At the time the A2 came out, the Paladin didn't exist. The A2, as might be guessed was an improvement on the A1. Basically, the A2's major improvement externally was the hooded glass cover for the panoramice telescope (pantel) sight. Otherwise, it was the M109A1 all over agian.

Thanks guys.
Now the research begins.....

Here are some links to reviews. The first one is to the review done by highly renouned Cookie Sewell: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=paladin+group:rec.models.scale&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=rec.models.scale&selm=20000620202929.20534.00000174%40ng-fh1.aol.com&rnum=1

The second is to a review on the Eduard PE set for the Paladin: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=20000830201501.21362.00001838%40ng-ce1.aol.com&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Dpaladin%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch%26meta%3Dgroup%253Drec.models.scale

The link in my signature block will take you to a site with an M109A4 and M109A5 in it.

QUOTE: Originally posted by james larson What does the revell paliden cost . (u.s. dollers) I was thinking about getting eduard's conversion set to up grade the italeri m-109 to the paliden. Is it worth it? Or should I just get the revell kit?

The Paladin, or M109A6, has a different turret than the earlier M109 series of self-propelled howitzers. Italeri actually makes (or made, some maybe OOP) all variants from the 105mm M108, M109 thru the M109A6.

Beware that the Eduard set for the M109A6 Paladin is not designed to convert an earlier M109 variant to a Paladin. It is designed to add photo etch detail to the M109A6 Paladin kits by Italeri and Revell of Germany.

The detail set is worth buying if you already have a Paladin.

I'm stationed in germany so mine was 22.00 euros.

dcw3105, if you check out ronUSMC's web page , I downloaded a lot of paladin pics. That's my job in the army, Artillery! Also if you check out some kinda Israli artillery site, I do believe they use our older systems along with a host of other friendly nations.

James, to do an upgrade on an A-5 to a A-6 it's kinda a drastic change, the afcs, the outside mounted hydraulic res.,the larger bussel rack and the extended racks, to the automated travel lock.I put some pics of an A-5 and A-6 on ronUSMC's site in the reference section check them out , you'll see the difference between the two. hope this helps out?

And thanks for the directions for the tracks!!!!

What does the revell paliden cost . (u.s. dollers)
I was thinking about getting eduard's conversion set to up grade
the italeri m-109 to the paliden.
Is it worth it?
Or should I just get the revell kit?

I purchased my Paladin tracks from www.greatmodels.com, they were $10.75, nice tracks.

Does anyone know where to find reference photos for the Paladin, especially the A2?

Thanks

The Revell kit is a reboxed Italeri kit. Skybow makes M108/109 individual track links for around $10.